Top Ten Years Position Player - 1920s

The most dominant player ever! The most dominant decade ever! Babe Ruth pounded his way through the 1920s like no other player over a specific period of time in the history of the game, and that dominance was not even close to ever being challenged, even through the present day, not even in the steroid allegation era of Bonds, McGwire, and Rodriguez, and including the statistically challenging seasons from 1998 to 2003. Babe Ruth produced six seasons above 50.000 PEVA in the 1920s alone (there are only 7 more in the history of baseball from position players), and took 7 of the Top Ten years of the decade. And the dominance was not just HR oriented, check out his OBP and SLG in those years compared to the league average. His #1 year in the run was 1923, when he added a 0.393 batting average to the power mix.

But what may be just as important to note about this decade and its relationship to how PEVA is constructed. One dominant player during a season does not preclude another player from dominance as well. Because PEVA does not use a player's ranking in a category, but the player's relationship on the continuum of Maximum to Average values, Lou Gehrig could produce the #11 Best Season in Baseball History (Position Players) in the same year Ruth came in at #7 All-Time.


D/ARank Player ID Name First Year Team Lg HR RBI AVG Age PEVA-B
1 1 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1923 NYA AL 41 131 0.393 28 58.931
2 2 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1920 NYA AL 54 137 0.376 25 55.754
3 4 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1921 NYA AL 59 171 0.378 26 54.876
4 7 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1927 NYA AL 60 164 0.356 32 51.850
5 9 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1926 NYA AL 47 146 0.372 31 51.603
6 10 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1924 NYA AL 46 121 0.378 29 51.324
7 11 gehrilo01 Gehrig Lou 1927 NYA AL 47 175 0.373 24 50.953
8 23 hornsro01 Hornsby Rogers 1922 SLN NL 42 152 0.401 26 45.149
9 44 hornsro01 Hornsby Rogers 1929 CHN NL 39 149 0.380 33 41.923
10 64 ruthba01 Ruth Babe 1928 NYA AL 54 142 0.323 33 40.061